New and little-known marine and freshwater species of the silica-scaled genera <i>Thaumatomastix</i> and <i>Reckertia</i> (Cercozoa: Thaumatomonadida)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Six new marine species of the silica-scaled heterotrophic genus Thaumatomastix are formally described: two were found in Canadian Atlantic Ocean coastal waters ( T. asymmetrica sp. nov. and T. sablensis sp. nov.) and four from Canadian Pacific Ocean coastal waters ( T. inornata sp. nov., T. multipora sp. nov., T. gwaii sp. nov. and T. curvata sp. nov.). These discoveries more than double the number of known marine species of this genus from four to ten. The scale structures of all differ significantly from those of previously known species and therefore warrant erection as new species. Amended descriptions of two previously little-known freshwater species ( T. triangulata and T. nigeriensis ) are provided based on specimens found in freshwater ponds and lakes in Ontario, Lanada, and provide evidence refuting the recent published proposals to transfer T. triangulata back to the photo-autotrophic genus Chrysosphaerella and to transfer T. nigeriensis to the related thaumatomonad genus Reckertia . Until now, all known species of Reckertia (including several taxa previously classified in Thaumatomastix ) were marine. This paper describes the first known freshwater species of Reckertia ( R. hindoni sp. nov.) found in two separate Ontario ponds. The similarities and differences among many of the marine and freshwater species of Thaumatomastix suggest a common ancestor but significant evolutionary divergence over time and space.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".